Articles By Ashlee Lorena

College can be one of the most taxing, and most challenging, experiences in your life from an academic standpoint. You may have to squander nearly double the time outside the class studying than in the class studying. Besides sole studying, there are a few more ways to study that will not only benefit you, but maybe other students in your class.

Universities would set and assess dissertations for the brightest school pupils in a bid to help them identify the best students, under a proposed overhaul of A-levels. Plans being discussed by former Ofsted chief Mike Tomlinson's working group, which is investigating the reform of education for 14 to 19-year olds, would see all A level coursework in schools phased out and replaced with a single dissertation under a new overarching diploma.